OF

INTERNATIONAL LAW.

BY

RICHARD WILDMAN, Esq.,

OF THE INNER TEMPLE, BARRISTER AT LAW;
RECORDER OF NOTTINGHAM, &c.

VOL. I.

INTERNATIONAL RIGHTS

IN

TIME OF PEACE.

LONDON:

WILLIAM BENNING & CO., LAW BOOKSELLERS,

43, FLEET STREET.

1849.

BIBLIOTHEQUE

DE L'UNIVERSITE

DE GAND

LONDON:

RAYNER AND HODGES, PRINTERS,

109, Fetter Lane, Fleet Street.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

OF THE NATURE AND SOURCES OF INTERNATIONAL LAW.

International law defined

distinguished from treaties

from the jus gentium of the civil law

The law of nature no part of the law of nations

Slavery and the slave-trade, contrary to the law of nature

not contrary to the law of nations